CSS hardware quiz

Hardware

any part of your computer that has a physical structure.

Software

any set of instructions that tells the hardware what to do.

Laptop

battery or ac-powered personal computer that are more portable than desktop computers.

Tablet

is a mobile computing device designed to be held in one or two hands.

system unit

is the core of a computer system.

mouse

used to interact with items on your computer screen.

Monitor

referred to as a VDT (video display terminal) and VDU (video display unit)

keyboard

an input device the main way to enter information into your computer.

Printer

an external hardware output device that takes the electronic data stored on a computer or other device.

Motherboard

main circuit board

CPU

hardware within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program.

Hard disk

is a non-volatile memory hardware device that permanently stores and retrieve data on a computer.

berg

a power connector for floppy disk

molex

power connector for IDE devices.

24 pin ATX

main power connector of the motherboard

4 pin ATX

is a standard motherboard power connector used to provide +12 VDC.

PCIE Power Connector

power connector for video card.

Graphics Card

(also called as video adapter, display card) an expansion card which generates a feed output images to display.

Peripheral Component Interconnect

PCI

Accelerated graphics port or AGP

an advanced port designed for video cards and 3d accelerators.

Port

a connector on a motherboard or on a seperate adapter that allows a device to connect to a computer.

Clock Speed

is a processor’s rating that measure a certain number of information processed per second.

FSB Front Side Bus

serves as the processors connection to the system memory. FSB transfer speed allows better processor performance.

Cache

enables the processor to speedily access recently used information.

RAM

a hardware device that allows information to be stored and retrieved on a computer.

SINGLE INLINE MEMORY MODULE

come in two main sizes, as shown in figure below, so both sizes require a different-size socket.

SDRAM DIMM

To meet the increased memory demands of newer and more powerful Pentium and AMD CPUs

RDRAM

created a super-fast, super-expensive memory in the late 1990s

DDR SDRAM

this stuff does some tricky piggybacking on the memory bus to speed things up dramatically

DDR2 SDRAM

Short for double data rate two

DDR3 SDRAM

chips have bus clock speed of 400 MHz up to 1066 MHz, range in size from 1 to 24 GB, and consume nearly 30% less power than their predecessors.

DDR4 SDRAM

is a type of system memory known as SDRAM and was released in September 2014 as the successor to DDR3